Antisocial Media

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Today we discuss social media companies losing lawsuits in California and New Mexico over child safety and addictive practices and the shifting public perception on these ubiquitous platforms. Will the growing realization of the dangers of these services lead to a substantial change in legislation or regulation, or will the change come from shifting social acceptability? Plus, Chrstine recommends Ruth Wisse's NEH Jefferson Lecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:08.0	Expect the worst.
0:10.0	Some drinks can pay
0:12.0	Some die of thirst.
0:15.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.4	Oh, for the best.
0:24.7	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.7	Today is Thursday, March 26th, 20206.
0:31.4	I am John Podhor.
0:32.4	It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
0:36.6	Hi, Abe.
0:38.1	Hi, John.
0:45.8	And social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. One of Christine's primary topics as a writer, a scholar, a polemicist is the scourge of the internet social media.
0:56.9	Your book, The Extinction of Experience is about the effort to remove us from the real world
1:02.2	and place us in this virtual world in which we don't have the proper set of emotional tools
1:10.3	to cope with the fact that we are now spending so much
1:14.4	time away from real things and actual things. And a very important, two very important
1:23.7	things happened this week in courtrooms relating to the social media companies that have
1:30.8	really created this new reality for Americans and people across the world since the introduction
1:38.7	of the iPhone and Facebook in the mid-2000s lawsuit finding meta and YouTube, which is Google, liable for the harms done to an individual 20-year-old who claims that she's harmed by her addiction to social media,
2:06.5	which, according to the suit, which is not contested, began at the age of nine when she began to go on,
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